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Dr. Jon Pangborn Explains the Background
and Benefits of Detox-Aid Advanced Formula
In the Spring of 2007, Kirkman Laboratories asked me to develop a formulation that
should enhance a special needs child's ability to detoxify. For quite a while now,
we've all been concerned about toxic stressors besides mercury, Thimerosal and viruses,
which might induce or worsen some developmental disorders. In fact, there is mounting
evidence that various pesticides and flame-retardant chemicals can have severe detrimental
effects. From published studies, I've found that these toxic substances (organophosphates,
for example) can disrupt the same body chemistry that mercury does. Besides that,
recent clinical studies with special needs children show molecular and genetic links
between certain disorders and this same chemistry-gone-wrong. The result may be
brain damage to infants and children at a time in life when neuronal development
is supposed to bring about integrative thought and expressive speech.
For eleven years, during the 1980s-90s, I was on the teaching faculty of the American
Academy of Environmental Medicine. It was then that I learned about calcium glucarate's
ability to assist the body's detox efforts. In the intestinal tract, glucarate acts
to keep many substances in the safe, detoxified forms that the liver produced and
shipped out via the bile. Without glucarate, intestinal organisms could undo the
liver's detox efforts and release some very reactive, dangerous substances.
We've all heard about glutathione (GSH) and the amino acid N-acetylcysteine that
promotes GSH formation inside cells. Glutathione does a lot more than remove mercury
from cells. Besides being a major antioxidant, GSH works to detoxify many environmental
toxicants that are pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, solvents and petrochemicals.
Taurine, a special sulfur amino acid, is made in the body as an end product of the
metabolic process that gives us cysteine. Taurine is both an antioxidant and a detoxifier.
It scavenges hypochlorite and protects cells from chlorine exposures that a child
might encounter with household detergents and bleach or from swimming pools. Even
more important, taurine allows the immune system's cellular police to oxidize germs
and toxins with minimal cellular damage.
Turmeric, a natural herb and powerful antioxidant, is reported to increase the same
detoxication mechanism that glucarate protects. Turmeric and glucarate are synergistic.
One (turmeric) helps to wrap up the cell's garbage, while the other (glucarate)
keeps it wrapped until it's hauled away.
While all this is going on, we need to protect the liver form toxin exposure and
oxidant damage, which is what milk thistle extract assists with. And we need to
protect the flora population in the intestinal tract, which is what olive leaf extract
helps us do. In summary, Detox-Aid Advanced Formula is a coordinated set of nutrients
that work together as a team and that have well-documented benefits. The ingredients
of Detox-Aid Advanced Formula help to remove toxicants while protecting cells and
tissues. I think the ever-worsening maze of environmental pollutants has caught
up with us, and we need a Detox-Aid to help.
Jon B Pangborn
September, 2007
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Jon Pangborn, Ph.D., received a doctoral degree in chemical engineering. After working
in nuclear research and the field of alternative fuels, he became interested in
the biochemistry of human metabolism. He developed a novel procedure for evaluating
amino acid analyses and founded Bionostics, Inc., as a consulting organization.
He is a holder of 9 U. S. patents, and author of over 200 publications and presentations.
Dr. Pangborn is Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists, is certified as a
Clinical Nutritionist, and serves regularly on the faculties of the American Academy
of Environmental Medicine and the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy. He worked
closely with Dr. Bernard Rimland in the area of autism research. Dr. Pangborn is
a consultant to Kirkman Group, Inc.
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